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Conservation biologist George Wittemyer, who has been studying elephants at the reserve since 1997, says: “Elephants have respect for their dead, but their interaction with their dead is not something we fully understand.

“Every time it happens, it’s not the same, but it is striking behaviour—not based on survival or necessity, but based on some sort of emotion.

"The fact that they interact and have behavioural interactions with their dead in a form that is not explainable in any simple, evolutionary context speaks to the deeper emotional lives of elephants that we can’t easily study.”

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